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Hearts 0 Motherwell 0: Foran failure foils clean sweep over Hearts

FINALLY, Hearts avoid the sting against Motherwell. Terry Butcher’s team were four for four against them before this, including a last-minute, extra-time winner in the CIS Cup semi-final. They would have achieved the clean sweep yesterday, but for a missed penalty from Richie Foran just before the break. Hearts have ended the Premierleague contests without scoring a goal in four games against Motherwell.

Hearts, and their manager John Robertson, have pinned their hopes on a swashbuckling game that employs two out-and-out wingers, yesterday the Lithuanians, Saulius Mikoliunas and Deividas Cesnauskis, while Motherwell have battered out points like this with industry and cohesion, and those qualities have done for the aspiring flamboyance of Hearts. The neutral must hope, though, that Robertson does not learn his lesson.

Hearts may have escaped with that penalty but they could have scored four or five themselves. What little caution they did hold on to was